29 August 2016

Artist Biography
by Stacia Proefrock

Formed in Bristol, England in 1994, Movietone
displayed its quiet, sensual songs on a number of releases in the mid
'90s for the Planet, Domino, and Drag City labels. Band members Florence Lovegrove, Matt Elliott, Rachel Brook, Kate Wright, and Matt Jones
issued two 7"s with Planet before their self-titled full-length debut
came out in 1996 -- two more 7's would follow before their Drag City
debut, Day and Night, in 1997. The band then went on a three-year hiatus
before producing their next full-length, The Blossom Filled Streets, in the summer of 2000. Like their previous releases, The Blossom Filled Streets is gentle and complex, with a light touch that shows how much the band has grown.

Artist Biography
by Jason Ankeny

Scottish rural folk combo Appendix Out was formed in mid-1994 by singer/guitarist Ali Roberts and bassist/violinist Dave E. While at a Palace Brothers concert the following year, Roberts passed Will Oldham an Appendix Out demo cassette, and in early 1996 Oldham
issued the single "Ice Age" on his Palace label; weeks later the group
-- now additionally including cellist Louise D. and drummer Eva Peck
-- also contributed material to the Up Records 4x4 compilation.
"Well-Lit Tonight," one half of a Creeping Bent label split single with the Leopards, briefly preceded the 1997 release of Appendix Out's superb debut album The Rye Bears a Poison; guitarist/percussionist Gareth Eggie and flutist/keyboardist Tom C. joined the loose-knit lineup for the 1999 follow-up Daylight Savings. Night Is Advancing. which featured a looser, more dynamic sound, was issued in 2001.

Artist Biography
by Greg Prato

The Chicago, IL trio Muchacha -- Alex Acevedo
(guitar and vocals), Mike Ronek (bass), and Trent Anderson (drums) is a
self-described "rock band with really loud guitars and super-fast
drums." And if you're a fan of such reckless punk-pop as Foo Fighters and Superchunk, chances are you'll dig the energetic rock of Muchacha. Although the band lists such 70's acts as Blondie, the Ramones, and the Damned
as their chief influences, the music on their self-titled debut album
(released on the Slipdisc label in 1997) is much similar to their 90's
contemporaries. Still, the band has the talent and know-how to come up
with some very catchy and strong material - - a combination of precise
bashing with (thankfully) underproduced sounds.

Artist Biography
by Jason Ankeny

Cult favorite melodic hardcore unit Lifetime was formed in New Jersey in 1990 by singer Ari Katz and guitarist Dan Yemin.
Boasting a positive lyrical approach in stark contrast to the cynical
mentality predominant throughout the hardcore community of the period,
the group earned immediate fame with the 1991 release of its self-titled
debut EP, issuing the acclaimed full-length Background the following year. After countless lineup changes, the Lifetime roster stabilized prior to the release of their 1995 Jade Tree label debut, Hello Bastards, with Katz and Yemin recruiting guitarist Pete Martin, bassist Dave Palaitis, and drummer Scott Golley.
The album really cemented the band's status as underground heroes, only
to be further solidified with their next effort. After a brief tour in
support of 1997's well-received Jersey's Best Dancers, the influential group dissolved; while Katz, Palaitis and Golley were soon reunited in Zero Zero, Yemin teamed with drummer David Wagenschutz (a Lifetime alum from the group's earliest incarnations) to form Kid Dynamite, and later, Paint It Black.

Lifetime
reunited in August 2005 to play New Jersey's Hellfest, but when the
festival was unexpectedly canceled, the group instead played a few shows
around the East Coast, all proceeds going to charity. Several more
packed shows followed, including a slot at 2006's South by Southwest
festival, before the band decided to seriously re-form and sign with
Decaydance (headed by Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz, who was a huge fan of the band) in March 2006. That same month, Jade Tree released the double-disc collector's set Somewhere in the Swamps of Jersey,
which highlighted the band's earlier (and much of it out of print) work
alongside 52 pages of lyrics, rare photos, and liner notes. As work
began on a new record, Lifetime embarked on a brief summer tour with the Bronx and the Loved Ones in tow. The EP 2 Songs
appeared that fall and wetted palates for the eventual release of their
highly anticipated self-titled record, which picked up exactly where
the guys left off upon its release in early February 2007.

Artist Biography
by Heather Phares

Dirty Three guitarist Mick Turner began a solo career in 1997 with the release of Tren Phantasma, a collection of improvised four-track recordings featuring the contemplative guitar style he used with his group the Dirty Three. The following year, Turner and his bandmate Jim White played live as the Tren Brothers,
carrying the album's aesthetic into a concert setting with an arsenal
of loop pedals and understated percussion. Several of these dates were
opening spots for Cat Power, with whom the duo collaborated on the 1998 album Moon Pix. Turner and White also recorded a 7" for Secretly Canadian Records that year, and followed it with 1999's Marlan Rosa, released by Drag City. In summer 2002, Turner released the Seven Angels EP, a limited-edition set issued by Three Lobed Records. Later that year, his third album Moth arrived. In 2005, an extremely limited CD-R live EP, entitled Don't Tell the Driver, was issued by Turner's King Crab label. In 2007, a Tren Brothers rarities collection, The Blue Trees, appeared. Between that year and 2012 he appeared on records by Clare Bowditch & the Feeding Set and Guy Blackman, as well as on a split 7" between the Tren Brothers and Bridezilla. In 2013, a compilation of his earliest recordings with Jim White in the band Venom P. Stinger was released by Drag City, followed by a brief reunion tour and the release of his next full-length solo effort, Don't Tell the Driver,
in November. Though it bore the same title as the 2005 EP, they
weren't related in any way. The full-length album had been composed and
recorded intermittently between 2009 and 2012 at Big Moth studios in
Australia.

24 August 2016

Here's an unusual spoken word, ambient record I have not heard since the 90's. Hakim Bey was a supporter of poetic terrorism, a method of creating entities outside the societal norm and performing and creating actions of unusual and creative purpose. Performing harmless pranks on unsuspecting people, or posting random acts of artwork in public, creating a pirate radio station (I had one), leave little fetishes around for people to find (I had a friend do this. He would leave little items in soapboxes in bathrooms, college libraries, anywhere he chose), post a plaque of an event you experienced, or participate in a myriad of other actions that will have a desired effect on people, that is poetic terrorism. Entities such as Burning Man, and the Anonymous Hacker movement can be described as examples of their own kind of poetic terrorism. There are an unlimited number of things you could do to participate in poetic terrorism and have fun in the process. We used to do this back in the day but I will leave it to your imagination. In my opinion, poetic terrorism should not be designed to injure or terrify anyone and no one should ever be hurt physically or emotionally in the process of participation in poetic terrorism.

Here is Hakim Bey's website which explains more about poetic terrorism. I do not agree with everything he believes or promotes and I Hate the 90s blog is not an endorsement of Hakim Bey, however his site is an interesting and informative and often humorous read.

AllMusic Review
by Victor W. Valdivia

On T.A.Z., writer Hakim Bey
reads excerpts from his book of the same name, a work detailing his
beliefs that ancient philosophical concepts (such as the Chinese secret
society known as a Tong), coupled with modern elements, will return
humanity to enlightenment. So it makes sense that Bey's readings are
accompanied by backing tracks assembled by legendary producer Bill Laswell.
Laswell, as shown by the other, wildly divergent releases on Axiom, has
always grafted modern urban sounds and ideas with ancient Eastern
musicians and instruments. For T.A.Z. (the title is short for "Temporary
Autonomous Zone," Bey's term for a Tong), Laswell constructed ambient,
sparse music fusing the sounds of Chinese musician Wu Man with cult guitar hero Buckethead, as well as frequent collaborator Nicky Skopelitis.
(Buckethead fans should be forewarned that he plays gentler, more
melodic music in the style of his album Colma rather than his usual
rapid-fire soloing) The music serves to showcase Bey's voice, which
remains at a soothing cadence. His voice never wavers, even when he
rabidly excoriates the veneration of police in popular culture, as he
does in "Boycott Cop Culture," or when he exhorts listeners to perform
pranks in the name of civil disobedience in "Poetic Terrorism." Though
the album can be riveting, it has flaws. Sometimes Bey shows off his
articulateness excessively, causing his meaning to be totally lost. It's
also true that he falls into the danger of preaching to the converted;
listeners who are already inclined to agree with his views on society
and culture will feel confirmed, while others will simply dismiss him
outright. Still, those looking for a modern equivalent to classic albums
by the Last Poets and Gil-Scott Heron should seek T.A.Z. out.

23 August 2016

Peter Astor and the Holy Road was the named used by Pete Astor -
formerly of The Loft and The Weather Prophets, latterly of Ellis Island
Sound and The Wisdom Of Harry - for one album, Paradise, released on
Danceteria in 1992.

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